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Digital Economy Bill [HL]

My Lords, I find the Minister’s logic strange because what is upsetting these people is the failure of ACS Law to take them to court. They want to go to court to demonstrate their innocence and the ridiculousness of the demands made of them. This is about the failure of ACS ever to get to court but to continue the stream of insinuating, embarrassing—because it often alleges that pornography has been downloaded—and damaging allegations. People want to bring that to an end with a proper court case where allegations can be thrown out and a suitable end brought to what is going on. But it never comes to that. I accept that this route will not do, if that is what the Minister says, but we will clearly need to find some means of dealing with these people.